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Immigrant Wage and Employment Assimilation: A Comparison of Methods

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Hanel, Barbara; McVicar, Duncan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We compare alternative methods for estimating immigrant wage and employment assimilation using unique panel data over 2001–2009 for a large, nationally-representative sample of immigrants. Previous assimilation estimates have been mainly based on cross-sectional data and have therefore...

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Latina Entrepreneurship

Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

nonminority white female entrepreneurs and slightly less than observationally similar Latinas in wage/salary work. …

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Does Self-Employment Increase the Economic Well-Being of Low-Skilled Workers?

Lofstrom, Magnus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

substantial differences in the role of self-employment among low-skilled workers across gender and nativity – women and immigrants …

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Low-Skilled Immigrant Entrepreneurship

Lofstrom, Magnus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

More than half of the foreign born workforce in the U.S. have no schooling beyond high school and about 20 percent of the low-skilled workforce are immigrants. More than 10 percent of these low-skilled immigrants are self-employed. Utilizing longitudinal data from the 1996, 2001 and 2004 Survey...

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Bias in the Legal Profession: Self-Assessed versus Statistical Measures of Discrimination

Antecol, Heather; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Helland, Eric - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

(i) client discrimination; (ii) other work-related discrimination; and (iii) harassment. Overall, our results indicate … that conventional measures of earnings discrimination are not closely linked to the racial and gender bias that new lawyers … disparity in self-assessed bias across gender and racial groups. …

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Getting Ahead: The Determinants of and Payoffs to Internal Promotion for Young U.S. Men and Women

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, this paper examines the role of gender in the promotion …. Specifically, how do the factors related to promotion differ for men and women? How do gender differences in promotion translate … into differences in subsequent wage growth? To what extent does the promotions gap contribute to the gender wage gap? In …

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Do Non-Cognitive Skills Help Explain the Occupational Segregation of Young People?

Antecol, Heather; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

-dominated occupations is also related to the willingness to work hard, impulsivity, and the tendency to avoid problems. The nature of these …

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Mexican-Hispanic Self-Employment Entry: The Role of Business Start-Up Constraints

Lofstrom, Magnus; Wang, Chunbei - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper examines causes of the low self-employment rates among Mexican-Hispanics by studying self-employment entry utilizing the 1996 panel of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP). The data show that Mexican-Hispanics are less likely to be selfemployed as well as entering...

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H-1Bs: How Do They Stack Up to US Born Workers?

Lofstrom, Magnus; Hayes, Joseph - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Combining unique individual level H-1B data from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and data from the 2009 American Community Survey, we analyze earnings differences between H-1B visa holders and US born workers in STEM occupations. The data indicate that H-1Bs are younger and...

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The Dynamics of Immigrant Welfare and Labor Market Behavior

Hansen, Jörgen; Lofstrom, Magnus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

This paper analyzes transitions into and out of 3 different labor market states, social assistance, unemployment and employment. We estimate a dynamic multinomial logit model, controlling for endogenous initial condition and unobserved heterogeneity, using a large representative Swedish panel...

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